If I buy a computer, lets say an acer laptop, I receive a copy of Windows. If I ask the laptop without windows, because I want to use Linux, It is not possible. However, the Swiss Law authorises me to send the unsealed microsoft cd's for refund.
There is no difference if the good is virtual or real!
PHP, X11, cpp, diff, tar are free tools, so I don't see what are you talking about.
With 3%-5% of market share for OSX, we cannot talk of monopoly. Regarding Microsoft, we can say that they are abusing of their dominant position. If OSX market share was higher, Apple would be sued for iTunes..
Let's try another example. Recently I bought a car. CD-Player was included in the price, but I just wanted another cd-player (Clarion).
The car-seller told me I should pay to get the original Cd-pLayer removed so that I can add my own cd-player.
Media Player isn't free, you pay for it and here in Europe this is called "forced sale" and is forbiden by law.
The nose has about 30 differents sensors, which scent 30 different types of smells whose linear combinations produce all the "scentable" smells.
Same as your eye can see 3 different basic colors (+luminance), and with that you can see about 8*10 different linear combinations of that 3 base vectors, (yes 24bit colors is double that we can see), the same stands for smell, but with 30 "base vectors" - 30 sorts of oils.
Oh, altough it is true that downloading every 2 weeks a new kernel might be (is) bandwidth consumming, nevertheless why someone should upgrade it's kernel every 2 *** weeks?!?
Let's be realistic, the changes made from one version to another are very precise, read the change log first, and then decide if you are really using that really cool stuff they are upgrading!
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If I buy a computer, lets say an acer laptop, I receive a copy of Windows. If I ask the laptop without windows, because I want to use Linux, It is not possible. However, the Swiss Law authorises me to send the unsealed microsoft cd's for refund.
There is no difference if the good is virtual or real!
PHP, X11, cpp, diff, tar are free tools, so I don't see what are you talking about.
With 3%-5% of market share for OSX, we cannot talk of monopoly. Regarding Microsoft, we can say that they are abusing of their dominant position. If OSX market share was higher, Apple would be sued for iTunes..
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Media Player isn't free, you pay for it and here in Europe this is called "forced sale" and is forbiden by law.
The nose has about 30 differents sensors, which scent 30 different types of smells whose linear combinations produce all the "scentable" smells.
Same as your eye can see 3 different basic colors (+luminance), and with that you can see about 8*10 different linear combinations of that 3 base vectors, (yes 24bit colors is double that we can see), the same stands for smell, but with 30 "base vectors" - 30 sorts of oils.
The justice is the right that not everyone can afford..
Yeah ! Bomb cars!
Your perception of *smart* is maybe the cause of your lack of points...
Oh, altough it is true that downloading every 2 weeks a new kernel might be (is) bandwidth consumming, nevertheless why someone should upgrade it's kernel every 2 *** weeks?!?
Let's be realistic, the changes made from one version to another are very precise, read the change log first, and then decide if you are really using that really cool stuff they are upgrading!